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Stanford University MA in Liberal Arts General Studies

The main focus area for this major is Liberal Arts. For more details on this concentration, visit its profile page.

Liberal Arts General Studies is a major offered under the liberal arts / sciences and humanities program of study at Stanford University. Here, you’ll find out more about the major master’s degree program in liberal arts, including such details as the number of graduates, diversity of students, and more.

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• Graduate Cost
• Online Learning
• Student Diversity
• Focus Areas
• References

How Much Does a Master’s in Liberal Arts from Stanford Cost?

Stanford Graduate Tuition and Fees

Part-time graduates at Stanford paid an average of $1,207 per credit hour in 2019-2020. This tuition was the same for both in-state and out-of-state students. The average full-time tuition and fees for graduate students are shown in the table below.

	In State	Out of State
Tuition	$54,315	$54,315
Fees	$696	$696

Does Stanford Offer an Online MA in Liberal Arts?

Stanford does not offer an online option for its liberal arts master’s degree program at this time. To see if the school offers distance learning options in other areas, visit the Stanford Online Learning page.

Stanford Master’s Student Diversity for Liberal Arts

There were 18 master’s degrees in liberal arts awarded during the 2019-2020 academic year. Information about those students is shown below.

Male-to-Female Ratio

Of the students who received their master’s degree in liberal arts in 2019-2020, 61.1% of them were women. This is in the same ballpark of the nationwide number of 61.4%.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

Racial-ethnic minority graduates* made up 22.2% of the liberal arts master’s degrees at Stanford in 2019-2020. This is lower than the nationwide number of 29%.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	2
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	0
Native American or Alaska Native	0
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander	0
White	13
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

MA in Liberal Arts Focus Areas at Stanford

Liberal Arts General Studies students may decide to major in one of the following focus areas.

Focus Area	Annual Graduates
Liberal Arts	18

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online

More about our data sources and methodologies.